Experiences with non-techies

[WkdPaul]

4 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

I allegedly stepped on a few motherboard LGA socket pins  and it screwed up the Motherboard so badly that it couldn't POST.

Wait .... Stepped ... On a few !?!?!?!?!

Motherboards are for PCs, not to be used as tiles in a bathroom!!!

 

[BingoFishy]

1 minute ago, wkdpaul said:

Wait .... Stepped ... On a few !?!?!?!?!

Motherboards are for PCs, not to be used as tiles in a bathroom!!!

 

What if they are wall tiles and not floor tiles.

[Space Reptile]

Just now, wkdpaul said:

not to be used as tiles in a bathroom!!!

now im tempted to apoxy some mobos (heatsinks and everything removed to make it super flat; and use em as bathroom tiles (maybe as shower wall tiles) 

[AlTech]

2 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

Wait .... Stepped ... On a few !?!?!?!?!

Motherboards are for PCs, not to be used as tiles in a bathroom!!!

 

Let's just say, I didn't really have a nice place to assemble it

 

My friends and I were soon gonna put the CPU in...........

 

IDEK. All I know is that I had to buy a new Mobo cos the supplier determined it was physical damage and not a manufacturing defect.

[AlTech]

3 minutes ago, BingoFishy said:

What if they are wall tiles and not floor tiles.

Dear god no. Please.......

[WkdPaul]

7 minutes ago, BingoFishy said:

What if they are wall tiles and not floor tiles.

 

3 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

Dear god no. Please.......

 

 

[themctipers]

13 hours ago, BingoFishy said:

Same. I knew difference CPUs had different sockets by the time I was 11 and I built my first PC on my 12th birthday. I did manage to mess up pretty bad (I've mentioned it before, forgot standoffs and killed GPU/wifi card, also would have been a lot worse without my semi-techie friend's help.) but I chose parts that were all compatible and was a decent deal. I've learned a ton more since then and have successfully helped my friend build a PC without issue (other than a bootloop but reseating ram fixed it). I still have a lot to learn, but I've gained a lot of technical knowledge in the last couple years.

 

ok done with my life story

 

NON-TECHIE TIME!!!

 

I tend to know more about iPhones than people who own iPhones. Whenever people have trouble hearing sound on their phone I just flip the mute switch. When people's iPhones get frozen, I'm the one that holds power+home.

 

I've never owned an iPhone in my life.

Haha the only thing I've fucked up is my 760 but I got it RMAed..

its asus ..

 

I do those shit also.. Then again I own a iPhone so I have to know this. 

Haha if you want to know more about iPhone I'm here.

[BingoFishy]

42 minutes ago, themctipers said:

Haha the only thing I've fucked up is my 760 but I got it RMAed..

its asus ..

Yep I RMA'd both and everything was fine (don't tell EVGA/TP-Link)

[BingoFishy]

Apparently my school system controls Google.

[Dargenfire]

6 hours ago, BingoFishy said:

-snip-

Apparently my school system controls Google.

*prepares tinfoil hat*

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If you read the stuff from this site, they claim to review the reviews, which is why it can take a couple weeks for yours to show up.  Apparently they're not reading very carefully.

 

Review for the Titan X (maxwell):

 

[WkdPaul]

New one from my "special" friend (the one that thinks VRAM is all you need to measure GPU's performance, meaning his GT610 is as good as my old HD7870 since they both have 2GB of VRAM!)

 

I was talking with him about the Note 7 being discontinued, the conversation goes as follow;

 

HIM: "OH! I have to check with my work then!"

ME: "Wait, you have a Note 7?"

HIM: "No, but I have to check for my Note 5!"

ME: *lough sigh* ...

HIM: ???

ME: "The Note S E V E N is being recalled and discontinued, not the WHOLE Note series!"

HIM: "Oh?"

 

... stay tuned for the next dumb story!

[DocSwag]

18 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

New one from my "special" friend (the one that thinks VRAM is all you need to measure GPU's performance, meaning his GT610 is as good as my old HD7870 since they both have 2GB of VRAM!)

 

I was talking with him about the Note 7 being discontinued, the conversation goes as follow;

 

HIM: "OH! I have to check with my work then!"

ME: "Wait, you have a Note 7?"

HIM: "No, but I have to check for my Note 5!"

ME: *lough sigh* ...

HIM: ???

ME: "The Note S E V E N is being recalled and discontinued, not the WHOLE Note series!"

HIM: "Oh?"

 

... stay tuned for the next dumb story!

TLDR 5=7

[Space Reptile]

25 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

the one that thinks VRAM is all you need to measure GPU's performance

as a 14 year old lad that is actually one of the major things i looked for when buying a card in the local shop

 

granted my budget was super tight anyways so my selection was low end to begin w/ 

 

but i bought the Powercolor Radeon HD5450 since it had more vram and a better DX support than some other card (polly a GT 520, who knows)

 

lil fun fact , the 5450 i have seems to have rather rare board design ,

every 5450 i saw after this one , used or new even the same type and brand had a low profile board

this one is full height , potato pictures under the spoiler  

 

Spoiler

 

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1 minute ago, Space Reptile said:

as a 14 year old lad that is actually one of the major things i looked for when buying a card in the local shop

*snip*

 

This just gave me a great idea... they should sell addin cards that are nothing but VRAM.  Like, 32 GB of VRAM, but all they do is reroute the iGPU to ports on the card  

It'll sell like hotcakes!  

[Space Reptile]

Just now, Ryan_Vickers said:

This just gave me a great idea... they should sell addin cards that are nothing but VRAM.  Like, 32 GB of VRAM, but all they do is reroute the iGPU to ports on the card  

It'll sell like hotcakes!  

i mean the card w/ the highest Vram in the 700 series from nvidia was the GT 740 4gb  

[BingoFishy]

53 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

TLDR 5=7

I rate it a perfect 5/7

[Space Reptile]

1 minute ago, BingoFishy said:

I rate it a perfect 5/7

JFC

[FloRolf]

Well, this next story is pretty much my fault for asking in the first place...

 

I wrote a mail to a local Electronics Shop, asking for their price for a new Sony 65" 4k TV i wanna buy.

A few hours later i get a reply

"Sorry, we don't have this exact TV here, but its also only 200hz, which is was too low for that screen size!

But i can recommend your the Samsung *BlaBlaBla 65"* for X€"

 

- STOP RIGHT HERE, THAT'S AN FHD SCREEN?!?!?!

200Hz is not enough for 65" but 1080p is? Okay, go on...

 

"Or we also have the Samsung *BlaBlup 65" with 1300PQI* FOR AN AMAZING PRICE!"

 

- Oh okay, let me see...

Yeah it's at least 4k. The first google result is cheaper however....

One more google link away, it's a native 50hz display, derp.

 

That's some top notch advice right here, thanks a bunch!

 

 

 

*If anyone here has a serious recommendation for a fast 60-100hz 65" 4k TV, maybe even with HDR and under 1500€ then please tell me :D*

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1 hour ago, FloRolf said:

...

*If anyone here has a serious recommendation for a fast 60-100hz 65" 4k TV, maybe even with HDR and under 1500€ then please tell me :D*

When you say "Fast", do you mean like, low input lag so you can game on it?  Because even the best TVs aren't all that fast (a whole frame of lag generally) and there are vrey few models (if any) in any given production year that are that good.  You can check on them all here: http://www.displaylag.com/display-database/ 

Just filter/sort by what you need.

[Space Reptile]

a pal of mine send me this 

ouch

[BingoFishy]

39 minutes ago, Space Reptile said:

a pal of mine send me this 

-snip-

ouch

Ink I hope?

[Space Reptile]

1 minute ago, BingoFishy said:

Ink I hope?

toner dust , apparently someone did not know how to change em , that is awful to wash out since it literally becomes printer ink when you try to wash it out 

[Donut417]

4 minutes ago, Space Reptile said:

toner dust , apparently someone did not know how to change em , that is awful to wash out since it literally becomes printer ink when you try to wash it out 

What in the blue hell were they thinking. I mean, you just pull the cartage out right. I mean how hard can it be. 

[Space Reptile]

2 minutes ago, Donut417 said:

What in the blue hell were they thinking. I mean, you just pull the cartage out right. I mean how hard can it be. 

you´d be suprised